New Language Lessons: An Elementary Grammar and CompositionThis book is an attempt to bring the subject of language home to children at the age when knowledge is acquired in an objective way, by practice and habit, rather than by the study of rules and definitions. In pursuance of this plan, the traditional presentation of grammar in a bristling array of classifications, nomenclatures, and paradigms has been wholly discarded. The pupil is brought in contact with the living language itself : he is made to deal with speech, to turn it over in a variety of ways, to handle sentences ; so that he is not kept back from the exercise-so profitable and interesting-of using language till he has mastered the anatomy of the grammarian. Whatever of technical grammar is here given is evolved from work previously done by the scholar. - William Swinton. |
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... Parsing , definition of , 116 ; model for , 116 , 117 . Participle , definition of , 102 ; mode of forming present , 102 ; mode of past , 102 ; syntax of , 123 , 129 . Parts , principal , of a verb , 103 . Parts of speech classified , 2 ...
... Parsing , definition of , 116 ; model for , 116 , 117 . Participle , definition of , 102 ; mode of forming present , 102 ; mode of past , 102 ; syntax of , 123 , 129 . Parts , principal , of a verb , 103 . Parts of speech classified , 2 ...
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... parsing nouns . LI . THE NOUN : Constructive Exercises . I. Write three sentences on each of the following nouns , bringing in each noun , as , 1. subject ; 2. possessive ; 3. object . MODEL : " The ocean . " 1. The ocean is the great ...
... parsing nouns . LI . THE NOUN : Constructive Exercises . I. Write three sentences on each of the following nouns , bringing in each noun , as , 1. subject ; 2. possessive ; 3. object . MODEL : " The ocean . " 1. The ocean is the great ...
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... parsing and the rules of con- Parsing consists in stating the class , subdivision , and modifica- tions of the words in a sentence . The rules of construction are statements of the general prin- ciples governing the relations of words ...
... parsing and the rules of con- Parsing consists in stating the class , subdivision , and modifica- tions of the words in a sentence . The rules of construction are statements of the general prin- ciples governing the relations of words ...
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... Parsing . water ... is a common noun , of the singular number and nominative case , subject of the verb " consists , " according to Rule I. he ........ is a personal pronoun , of the third person , singular number , masculine gender ...
... Parsing . water ... is a common noun , of the singular number and nominative case , subject of the verb " consists , " according to Rule I. he ........ is a personal pronoun , of the third person , singular number , masculine gender ...
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... parse the subjects according to the model . 1. Books are not dead things . 2. The teacher taught the pupils to sing . 3. The crows which are feeding in the field are easily frightened . 4. I heard a wonderful story when I was a little ...
... parse the subjects according to the model . 1. Books are not dead things . 2. The teacher taught the pupils to sing . 3. The crows which are feeding in the field are easily frightened . 4. I heard a wonderful story when I was a little ...
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according to Rule adjective phrase adverb adverbial phrase Analysis auxiliary beautiful birds birds of prey Cæsar called clause Columbus comma common noun complete complex sentence compound sentence conjunction connected Dear DEFINITION DEFINITION.-A denote Examples.-1 EXERCISE express following sentences parse formed by adding gender girl grammar horse IMPERATIVE MOOD indicative mood interrogative intransitive joined lady lesson live meaning Model for Parsing modifying the noun NOTE noun in apposition noun or pronoun object passive voice past participle Past Tense peas person or thing personal pronoun plural number possessive form POTENTIAL MOOD predicate adjective predicate verb preposition principal statement proper noun regular verb relative pronoun sentence containing sentence introducing sheep simple predicate simple sentence simple subject singular number soldiers SPECIAL RULE subjunctive SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD superlative sweet tell third person thou transitive verb tree word Write a sentence Write a simple wrote yesterday
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